SOA filling the Gaps

Few years ago a SOA Guru employed by one of the vendors paid a visit to my country and discussed SOA issues with a group of local architects. His reaction to my comment that a major goal of SOA is Business and IT alignment was that Business and IT alignment is only a buzzword. Real SOA is ESB based implementations. I could find at least 4 or 5 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) products which are superior to his company's solutions (and I am not the only one: Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave at that time agreed with my opinion). The limitation of that vendor's ESB solution is not the point. The point is expressed extremely in Burton Group 's analyst Anne Thomas-Manes famous post SOA is dead Long Live Services : In many cases we (IT experts) implemented SOA wrongly due to lack of Business alignment . Another important point was discussed by ex - ZapThink 's analyst David Linthicum in a Zapflash titled: Avoid Vendor Driven Architecture (VDA)!   Many ...